The Japery Critiques Kreeft's Vision Of Heaven

Tying into Rick's last post ... The Japery has taken Peter Kreeft to task for his answers to the question What Will Heaven Be Like? Rick and I both admire Mr. Kreeft's work, and so it's interesting to see such a negative take on this piece... The Japery says that Kreeft "applies scripture and reason with a little cheating based on absurd logical conjectures and even out-of-body near-death experience anecdotes!" He goes on to say of Kreeft, "perhaps like [Scott] Hahn, residual Calvinism is to blame for his whacky rationalism that would fit well with an Umberto Eco character--usually a deranged Jesuit or monk in his novels--who reaps all the worst results from a mish-mash of modern and pre-modern epistemes."

In any case, one of the bits the Japery dislikes most about Mr. Kreeft's speculation on the nature of heaven is Kreeft's assertion that God will wipe our memories clean of any deeply loved person who doesn't make the cut ... so that we won't suffer in that person's absence.

I don't like this idea either -- mostly because I think in a reality beyond time, the concept of memory not likely to be similar to the way we understand memory now. I did like some of the other answers Mr. Kreeft gives, and the whole Q&A is well worth reading, as is The Japery's criticism of it -- if only for its eloquently over-the-top outrage.